The MMA Vivisection – UFC Vegas 49: Makhachev vs. Green picks, odds, & analysis

Credit to Bobby Green, if he hadn’t stepped up to take on Islam Makhachev with little more than a week’s notice, this Saturday’s UFC…

By: Zane Simon | 1 year ago
The MMA Vivisection – UFC Vegas 49: Makhachev vs. Green picks, odds, & analysis
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Credit to Bobby Green, if he hadn’t stepped up to take on Islam Makhachev with little more than a week’s notice, this Saturday’s UFC card would be a complete mess. Arman Tsarukyan vs. Joel Alvarez stands out as the event’s other major highlight fight on a card that has some interesting matchups but very little stakes or notoriety.

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Here’s a look at the UFC VEGAS 49 fight card, as it stood at the time of recording:

ESPN+ MAIN CARD | 7pm/4pm ET&PT
Islam Makhachev vs. Bobby Green — At 4:36, Odds 33:43, Picks, Zane: Makhachev, Connor: Green
Misha Cirkunov vs. Wellington Turman — At 34:28, Odds 41:28, Picks, Both: Cirkunov
Ji Yeon Kim vs. Priscila Cachoeira — At 42:00, Odds 49:48, Picks, Zane: Kim, Connor: Cachoeira
Arman Tsarukyan vs. Joel Alvarez — At 50:30, Odds 1:00:52, Picks, Both: Tsarukyan
Armen Petrosyan vs. Gregory Rodrigues — At 1:01:56, Odds 1:09:31, Picks, Both: Rodrigues

ESPN+ PRELIMS | 4pm/1pm ET&PT
Zhu Rong vs. Ignacio Bahamondes — At 1:18, Odds 11:19, Picks, Both: Bahamondes
Josiane Nunes vs. Ramona Pascual — At 13:12, Odds 17:11, Picks, Both: Nunes
Terrance McKinney vs. Fares Ziam — At 17:24, Odds 25:32, Picks, Both: McKinney
Jinh Yu Frey vs. Hannah Goldy *CANCELLED — At 25:50, Odds 32:34, Picks, Both: Frey
Alejandro Perez vs. Jonathan Martinez — At 32:49, Odds 43:03, Picks, Zane: Martinez, Connor: Perez
Ramiz Brahimaj vs. Michael Gillmore — At 44;19, Odds 47:25, Picks, Both: Brahimaj
Victor Altamirano vs. Carlos Hernandez — At 48:42, Odds 55:38, Picks, Zane: Altamirano, Connor: Hernandez

For those of you following the picks made on the show, we started tracking them with the July 13th, 2020 Vivisections for ‘Kattar vs. Ige’… Standings for our last event, UFC Vegas 48: Walker vs Hill — Zane went 9/12, Connor went 10/12. So far, here are the overall standings: Zane is now 490/771 and Connor is now 479/771.

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Zane Simon
Zane Simon

Zane Simon is a senior editor, writer, and podcaster for Bloody Elbow. He has worked with the website since 2013, taking on a wide variety of roles. A lifelong combat sports fan, Zane has trained off & on in both boxing and Muay Thai. He currently hosts the long-running MMA Vivisection podcast, which he took over from Nate Wilcox & Dallas Winston in 2015, as well as the 6th Round podcast, started in 2014. Zane is also responsible for developing and maintaining the ‘List of current UFC fighters’ on Bloody Elbow, a resource he originally developed for Wikipedia in 2010.

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